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similar route maps for romney. joining me now as political reporter for the "columbus dispatch," joe barton, good to see you. >> great to be here. >> i know your paper endorsed mitt romney. but tell me about wa you're sensing on the ground. how close is this? does one side of the other have the edge? >> it's going to come down to the bull pen. if i had to pick a side, obama by a hair. but i mean, it really could go either way. it comes down to who turns out to vote. >> maybe the most fascinating thing i found yesterday and going to their headquarters, my family is here. a lot of the workers on both sides were telling me the expense, they've done this before, fewer people that they were calling were hanging up. more people were inviting them in or engaging them in conversation when they went door to door. there has been some concern about the deluge of advertising, whether it was express turnout. how engaged do you think voters are? >> i think they are very engaged. if you were to go over there and just grab the ave
similar route maps for romney. joining me now as political reporter for the "columbus dispatch," joe barton, good to see you. >> great to be here. >> i know your paper endorsed mitt romney. but tell me about wa you're sensing on the ground. how close is this? does one side of the other have the edge? >> it's going to come down to the bull pen. if i had to pick a side, obama by a hair. but i mean, it really could go either way. it comes down to who turns out to vote....
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romney with fewer stops planned to so far. the governor planning in virginia, wisconsin, ohio, new hampshire, and colorado as well. we want to bring in thursday's power panel. guys, it's good to have you here. alice, i want to start with you governor romney, as we mentioned, speaking moments ago. he wasn't holding back on his criticisms of the president. take a listen. >> he's got to find something to suggest it's going to be better over the next four years. so he came up with an idea next week, which is he's going to create the department of business. i don't think adding a new chair in his cabinet will help add millions of jobs. >> now that he's back officially on the campaign trail, mitt romney and any post-sandy chivalry is dead. is it risky for him to be doing this so soon in the wake of a disaster, especially in virginia, where they were under orders of sandy's presence coming their way? luckily, they were spared. >> governor romney showed tremendous compassion for those who are affected by sandy and took time off and ga
romney with fewer stops planned to so far. the governor planning in virginia, wisconsin, ohio, new hampshire, and colorado as well. we want to bring in thursday's power panel. guys, it's good to have you here. alice, i want to start with you governor romney, as we mentioned, speaking moments ago. he wasn't holding back on his criticisms of the president. take a listen. >> he's got to find something to suggest it's going to be better over the next four years. so he came up with an idea...
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what if mitt romney wins? for starters, he is going to have one very, very busy first day. >> on day one of my administration, i will label china a currency welfare. we will say yes to keystone pipeline. >> my presidency will be a pro-life presidency. i will get rid of obama care day one. i will repeal obama care on day one with all the energy i can muster. >> all right. so we are dgoing to take mitt romney at his word. he will get all of that done on his first day in office. what about the next four years? what would a romney presidency really look like. joining me to nothiprognosticati melber, neera tanden, kate ton dawson. let's start with the tax plan. if there is something i believe mitt romney is invested in doing, it is the tax plan. he claims it is revenue neutral. >> you have to claim certain things. this goes for both sides. there is this thing called business cycle. this is what we study. in a free market economy, recessions and recoveries, upswings and down swings are part and parcel of the world w
what if mitt romney wins? for starters, he is going to have one very, very busy first day. >> on day one of my administration, i will label china a currency welfare. we will say yes to keystone pipeline. >> my presidency will be a pro-life presidency. i will get rid of obama care day one. i will repeal obama care on day one with all the energy i can muster. >> all right. so we are dgoing to take mitt romney at his word. he will get all of that done on his first day in office....
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romney was shellshocked. we wept into the evening confident we had a good path to victory. i don't think there was one person who saw this coming. romney was shellshocked. those people just don't watch enough msnbc and have never heard of nate silver. team obama was not shocked by tuesday's result. campaign managers who won a bear hug from the president for his efforts said it came down to a laser focus on the battleground ta states. 3.7% compared to 20085.3 showing our advantage in the battleground states. how did the campaign manage to keep better margins in the battleground states? >> we got the coop on november 4th on the condition that time not use names and public anything until after election day. in the past month said one official the team had polling data from about 29,000 people in ohio alone. a whopping samp that composed nearly half of one percent of voters there allowing for deep dives into the group. this was a huge advantage when the polls started to slip after the first debate. they could che
romney was shellshocked. we wept into the evening confident we had a good path to victory. i don't think there was one person who saw this coming. romney was shellshocked. those people just don't watch enough msnbc and have never heard of nate silver. team obama was not shocked by tuesday's result. campaign managers who won a bear hug from the president for his efforts said it came down to a laser focus on the battleground ta states. 3.7% compared to 20085.3 showing our advantage in the...
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romney has a 39-point gap. pew's last poll understated the degree to which john mccain was going to lose latinos. and their last poll this year is projecting a 39-point loss for romney. in another poll, the decisions poll out ahead of the election a couple days ago shows an even worse result. pew has romney down by 39 points. latino decisions has him down by 49 points. 13 points worse than john mccain did when john mccain lost badly. so yes, this race is close. the polls say president obama is likely to win even though it's going to be close. if you're curious, the reason they think they might not lose is because of who they think will actually vote. who will be able to vote and have their vote counted? they are counting on electorate choosing the president that turns back time in terms of how white the country really is. here's my question, though. even if that works tomorrow, is that really a plan for the future? joining us now is frank rich, new york magazine's writer at large. it's great to have you here. >
romney has a 39-point gap. pew's last poll understated the degree to which john mccain was going to lose latinos. and their last poll this year is projecting a 39-point loss for romney. in another poll, the decisions poll out ahead of the election a couple days ago shows an even worse result. pew has romney down by 39 points. latino decisions has him down by 49 points. 13 points worse than john mccain did when john mccain lost badly. so yes, this race is close. the polls say president obama is...
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hurricane obama buries romney.
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that's why we're here today. >> but mitt romney says four years under a president romney will deliver change. >> four years ago, let's look at the promises the president made. he promised to do so very much. but frankly, he fell so very short. you hope that president obama would live up to his promise to bring people together to solve big problems, but he hasn't and i will. >> joining me now is dave weigel and mark, a columnist. welcome to both of you. so, finally, here we are, dave. seems like he spent billions of o dollar, ten months later and the race is still dead even. what are you looking for now? >> where the voters are in early voting ab where the voters tomorrow are turning out. i've been sending time in early voting sites. look at the composition -- >> what are you seeing? >> i was in -- county yesterday, about 15% african-american. yesterday in the polls, movement by black churches to get the vote turning to church to early voting sites. 50%. for the county, about 60% african-american and it looks like the democratic base in these big urban and suburban counties is coming o
that's why we're here today. >> but mitt romney says four years under a president romney will deliver change. >> four years ago, let's look at the promises the president made. he promised to do so very much. but frankly, he fell so very short. you hope that president obama would live up to his promise to bring people together to solve big problems, but he hasn't and i will. >> joining me now is dave weigel and mark, a columnist. welcome to both of you. so, finally, here we...
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that is the romney pattern, right? if you at first don't succeed, just keep trying. >> or you plagiarize. >> on the republican side there are just too many polls that put them down. however, there are many republicans at this point especially those on the romney campaign who when they see tens of thousands of people screaming out romney's name start to have these images of them moving into the white house. that's natural. it happened with the kerry people in 2004. there are people who still have not recovered from that experience. because you really do think it's within reach only one point, two points means the difference between having a career or not. >> ana marie, i read your column. you say you are freaking out about a romney presidency. this is understandable since you probably lose control of your own body and your own health care. but also does the nation really want a president who's going to slash the social safety net to pieces, probably put us into another war. is that what we want? >> well, i don't think i
that is the romney pattern, right? if you at first don't succeed, just keep trying. >> or you plagiarize. >> on the republican side there are just too many polls that put them down. however, there are many republicans at this point especially those on the romney campaign who when they see tens of thousands of people screaming out romney's name start to have these images of them moving into the white house. that's natural. it happened with the kerry people in 2004. there are people...
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romney even lost. october 31st, campaign sources told cbs news super storm sandy stalled romney's momentum. a few days before the election, if you hadn't had the storm, there would have been more of a chance for the romney campaign to talk about the deficit. the blame the storm line has continued all through today especially with former mississippi governor haley barbour speaking on the "today" show. >> hurricane sandy saved barack obama's presidency. it broke the momentum romney had coming in the end of october. >> this is a narrative republicans are telling themselves, that the beltway media is also now starting to tell itself because they keep hearing republicans say it. it is not a theory born from reality. this is a checkable thing, empirical idea. their theory is mitt romney was on track to win this thing if it weren't for that blasted storm. this is something we can check. easy. let's start with this. we're all in agreement that the polls were correct despite all the nonsense ahead of the electi
romney even lost. october 31st, campaign sources told cbs news super storm sandy stalled romney's momentum. a few days before the election, if you hadn't had the storm, there would have been more of a chance for the romney campaign to talk about the deficit. the blame the storm line has continued all through today especially with former mississippi governor haley barbour speaking on the "today" show. >> hurricane sandy saved barack obama's presidency. it broke the momentum...
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i don't think romney was doing that. obviously, we had races where some people made big mistakes like that and hurt the party. i think we go back to our strength, which is the governors. we've got 30 governors in the country that are republican. we did a good job there. those are folks making it happen every day. they're getting in the nuts and bolts of growing an economy. if we look to our governors, that's always been the strength of the republican party. you see folks like a governor casic in ohio, governor martinez in new mexico, governfvernor ha in tennessee. >> msnbc analyst karen finney and republican strategist chip saltsman. i appreciate it. presidential hug making history. president obama tweeted out this picture of him hugging the first lady on election night. it quickly became the most popular image in twitter history. the photo was taken in a campaign rally over the summer and was been retweeted 788,000 times. >>> third time is the charm, right? the dress michelle obama wore on election night, maybe you reco
i don't think romney was doing that. obviously, we had races where some people made big mistakes like that and hurt the party. i think we go back to our strength, which is the governors. we've got 30 governors in the country that are republican. we did a good job there. those are folks making it happen every day. they're getting in the nuts and bolts of growing an economy. if we look to our governors, that's always been the strength of the republican party. you see folks like a governor casic...
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that was a romney plan. he could absorb that. there's groundwork to be laid for him to say, look, this is how much i need in revenues. i don't care how we get there. that's a natural opening. so i guess my answer, john, i'm just not sure how much of that brinksmanship he wants to play. but i think what is certain is that he wants to very early define the terms of this debate, make it very public and say, this is the framework that is reasonable. this is what i'm putting forward, and not get into a situation where he then, after it fails, says, well, this is what i proposed, and let me leak all these documents. this is where we were. i think they want to be done with that and be very up front what they're prepared to do. >> what were you mumbling? >> he's always muttering one thing or the other. >> he cannot say, this is the number i need. you guys get there. he's got to, as jeffrey said, he's got to put out the framework himself. and remember, raising the top 2% doesn't get us where we need to go in revenue. we've got to do somet
that was a romney plan. he could absorb that. there's groundwork to be laid for him to say, look, this is how much i need in revenues. i don't care how we get there. that's a natural opening. so i guess my answer, john, i'm just not sure how much of that brinksmanship he wants to play. but i think what is certain is that he wants to very early define the terms of this debate, make it very public and say, this is the framework that is reasonable. this is what i'm putting forward, and not get...
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topics like mitt romney's tax return fails to quiet critics and mitt romney and the 47%. i guess it could have been worse. up next, we'll delve into some of the hottest senate races around the country and senator claire mccaskill will be here with her closing arguments against todd akin. coming up at 8:00 eastern, coming together, a benefit telethon to aid victims of hurricane sandy. featuring the great bruce springsteen and jon bon jovi. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. with her closing arguments with her closing arguments against todd akin. >>> i'm julia boorstin with your cnbc market wrap. stocks slide despite upbeat economic data. the dow sirngs 139 points, the s&p drops 13, and the nasdaq falls by 38 points. as you heard, 171,000 jobs were created last month. that was more than economists expected, but the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.9%. factory orders jumped nearly 5% in september. the biggest increase since march of 2011. and starbucks was a big gainer rising 9% following an upbeat profit forecast. that's it from cnbc, first in business worl
topics like mitt romney's tax return fails to quiet critics and mitt romney and the 47%. i guess it could have been worse. up next, we'll delve into some of the hottest senate races around the country and senator claire mccaskill will be here with her closing arguments against todd akin. coming up at 8:00 eastern, coming together, a benefit telethon to aid victims of hurricane sandy. featuring the great bruce springsteen and jon bon jovi. you're watching "hardball," the place for...
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even into the romney campaign. >> romney right now is polling as the favorite. i'm not sure the medicare message cut that deeply. >> okay. richard wolffe, jonathan, great to have you gentlemen with us. remember to answer tonight's question at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts with us on twitter and on facebook. we want to know what you think. coming up, the lines are long but the voters aren't backing down. why florida's governor is refusing to help out. this is the ed show live from democracy plaza. we're coming right back. stay with us. ♪ [ female announcer ] you can always measure the growth of your children by the way they clean themselves in the bathroom. try charmin ultra strong. with a new duraclean texture, charmin ultra strong helps you get clean. plus it's four times stronger than the leading value brand. and you can use up to four times less. good news for even the biggest kids in the family. we all go. why not enjoy the go with charmin ultra strong? why not enjoy the go and need to get my car fixed? progressive makes it easy, because we
even into the romney campaign. >> romney right now is polling as the favorite. i'm not sure the medicare message cut that deeply. >> okay. richard wolffe, jonathan, great to have you gentlemen with us. remember to answer tonight's question at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts with us on twitter and on facebook. we want to know what you think. coming up, the lines are long but the voters aren't backing down. why florida's governor is refusing to help out. this is the ed...
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mitt romney in the latest polling 24%. it is not just about immigration we see this regression, if these numbers are correct. >> it's not just about immigration. mitt romney walked into the selection with the latino vote up for grabs. had he made a case for the economy and education and small business talking directly to the latino voter, he would be ahead among the latino vote. in order to win the white house, tamron, you need at least 40% of the latino vote to make it to the white house, and he doesn't have a formula for that. if you look closely at what's happening in ohio, you have 150,000 voters there that are hispanic and you have virginia where mccain is leading there for the governor and has a sophisticated ground operation that helps obama and you have florida. you have over 100,000 registered democrats, more than republicans among the latino vote. >> let me play what presidential historian michael beshlav that was on this weekend. he talked about this divide and the electorate. let me play it. >> this country is
mitt romney in the latest polling 24%. it is not just about immigration we see this regression, if these numbers are correct. >> it's not just about immigration. mitt romney walked into the selection with the latino vote up for grabs. had he made a case for the economy and education and small business talking directly to the latino voter, he would be ahead among the latino vote. in order to win the white house, tamron, you need at least 40% of the latino vote to make it to the white...
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and mitt romney was on the far right. his main message which was economic policy, the exit polls show 66% of latinos believe those policies favor the wealthy, the rich, the upper class. it was mitt romney. it was his candidacy. i think the party has to come back towards the center, listen to people, listen to voices like jeb bush who say we have got to moderate ourselves. we've got to, you know, tone it down with moderation otherwise they don't have a future. i believe they do have a future, but they're going to have to go through some internal shift in where they are in terms of their messages towards latinos. >> and find the right candidate who can believe in that and sell that to this country. >> thanks, sir. we're going to be back with much more here on msnbc, the place for politics. don't go anywhere. campbell'ss that will make it drop over, and over again. ♪ from jammin' jerk chicken, to creamy gouda bisque. see what's new from campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 after that, it's on to
and mitt romney was on the far right. his main message which was economic policy, the exit polls show 66% of latinos believe those policies favor the wealthy, the rich, the upper class. it was mitt romney. it was his candidacy. i think the party has to come back towards the center, listen to people, listen to voices like jeb bush who say we have got to moderate ourselves. we've got to, you know, tone it down with moderation otherwise they don't have a future. i believe they do have a future,...
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romney is winning independents. so there. romney has this thing in the bag. carl rove, for the republicans this year, he took to "the wall street journal" this week to patiently explain to the people who don't understand that these numbers that look so bad for mr. romney do not matter or they are wrong. or they are wrong and they don't noe matter. because he says democrats are not winning early voting by enough. and he says the polls make assumptions about turnout that he describes as absurd. it also describes some stuff that makes him believe romney is going to win like crowd size and closing arguments. that shows that mitt romney is totally going to win this thing. both are trying to convince the country it's obvious they are going to win. it's worth listening to the arguments and checking to see if the arguments are based in good sense. but honestly, it's also worth recognizing that every campaign on both sides does this every time. for example, here is how this particular phenomenon looked the day before the election in 2008 when this bragging that we get
romney is winning independents. so there. romney has this thing in the bag. carl rove, for the republicans this year, he took to "the wall street journal" this week to patiently explain to the people who don't understand that these numbers that look so bad for mr. romney do not matter or they are wrong. or they are wrong and they don't noe matter. because he says democrats are not winning early voting by enough. and he says the polls make assumptions about turnout that he describes as...
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by the way, if romney loses, i think i said this last time, if romney loses ohio by a half point or a point, there's going to be second-guessing should he have picked rob portman for the political expedience. >> there's going to be second-guessing on a lot of things. >> oh, yeah. >> michael crowley, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, guys. >> it has been a tough week for the country, and obviously our thoughts are with all those who are struggling through the aftermath of sandy. i know on a personal note, my old neighbors in hoboken, i saw my building under water yesterday on television where i used to live, and that was jarring. one great thing about america is being able to laugh about our troubles. jon stewart had this two views of new york that emerged after sandy. >> there's been no electricity after the substation exploded just around there up 14th street. >> al, al, what is that on your back, al? >> it's a machete, jon. see, there's two types of folks down here in no-juicetown. people with machetes and dead people without machetes. >> all right, al, we'll come back to you. we're
by the way, if romney loses, i think i said this last time, if romney loses ohio by a half point or a point, there's going to be second-guessing should he have picked rob portman for the political expedience. >> there's going to be second-guessing on a lot of things. >> oh, yeah. >> michael crowley, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, guys. >> it has been a tough week for the country, and obviously our thoughts are with all those who are struggling through the...
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romney campaign sent senator norm coleman from minnesota to ohio to tell voters there that mitt romney had no intention of overturning roe versus wade even though mitt romney himself says he would do everything he could to overturn roe versus wade. he said if that happened be he would be delighted to sign a bill banning all abortion at the federal level. last week in ohio mr. romney made a mistake, an out and out gaffe. >> i saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers in this state, jeep, now owned by the italians, is thinking of moving all production to china. >> not true. totally false. jeep is not doing that. the day mitt romney told that made-up horror story to ohio voters chrysler had already announced that actually they were expanding. in ohio and in michigan. they weren't pulling out. mitt romney responded to the instant fact checking not by taking it back but by turning that lie into a new ad for ohio. and then he bought extra air time for it in toledo, where ohio workers make jeeps and where being told falsely that your job's being shipped to china might be personall
romney campaign sent senator norm coleman from minnesota to ohio to tell voters there that mitt romney had no intention of overturning roe versus wade even though mitt romney himself says he would do everything he could to overturn roe versus wade. he said if that happened be he would be delighted to sign a bill banning all abortion at the federal level. last week in ohio mr. romney made a mistake, an out and out gaffe. >> i saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers in this...
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look where romney is headed. according to nbc's first read, romney was in florida yesterday and virginia today. he'll also hit wisconsin, ohio, new hampshire, and colorado before the election. the president, this is an interesting map for him, he will be in wisconsin where he is right now with nevada, colorado, ohio, iowa, virginia, and florida. of course, they're sending their number one surrogates, the vp nominee out where they're not going. is this the map centered in ohio, virginia, and florida, is it still where the action is? >> it is for governor romney for sure. it's always been the case that governor romney needs to win florida, needs to win virginia, and pretty much needs to win ohio. even then he still needs to pick up another state somewhere along the way. you can see in his map that he's spending moths of his time in florida, virginia, and ohio and a little bit of time in one of those other states that he thinks he might be able to get a pickup, whether that's wisconsin, whether that's colorado. thos
look where romney is headed. according to nbc's first read, romney was in florida yesterday and virginia today. he'll also hit wisconsin, ohio, new hampshire, and colorado before the election. the president, this is an interesting map for him, he will be in wisconsin where he is right now with nevada, colorado, ohio, iowa, virginia, and florida. of course, they're sending their number one surrogates, the vp nominee out where they're not going. is this the map centered in ohio, virginia, and...
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mitt romney closes down headquarters. republicans wringing hands over what went wrong. >> don't tell me the republican party doesn't have outreach, we do. but what are we supposed to do now? are we supposed to, in order to get the hispanic and/or latino vote, did that mean open boarders and embrace the illegals? if we're not getting the female vote do we become pro-choice? do we start passing out birth control pills? >> where does the party go from here? we'll talk to virginia governor bob macdonald. plus other ballot issues, big victories for same-sex marriage and the fight to legalize marijuana. and late night gets the last laugh now that the election's over. >> well, it's over. and as usual, the guy from kenya won. >> president obama did well with women beating romney by 11 binders. >> florida tonight remains too close to call. so where's the good news, you say? here it is. the election was decided without them. >> you don't listen to anything i say! i have been bringing you the truth! hot and hard now for seven years.
mitt romney closes down headquarters. republicans wringing hands over what went wrong. >> don't tell me the republican party doesn't have outreach, we do. but what are we supposed to do now? are we supposed to, in order to get the hispanic and/or latino vote, did that mean open boarders and embrace the illegals? if we're not getting the female vote do we become pro-choice? do we start passing out birth control pills? >> where does the party go from here? we'll talk to virginia...
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expect a romney upset, or in the case of dick morris, a romney landslide? and no one was adamantly as wrong as dick morris. >> one idiot who writes for "newsweek" magazine actually said there was a possible obama landslide coming. my goodness. well, on friday i looked at the real poll numbers by an organization that i can't name, but i trust it. we're going to win the senate. i think that the media is perpetrating this gigantic fraud, which is to say that romney is foot in the mouth, that he's gaffe-prone, that he keeps screwing things up, that he's trailing. >> so you are standing by your prediction of a romney landslide? >> absolutely. romney will win this election by five to ten points in the popular vote and will carry more than 300 electoral votes. >> dick, what do you think? >> we're going to win by a landslide. it will be the biggest surprise in recent american political history. >> come on, dick. tell us what that polling outfit was? is it safe to say that he is the worst political pundit ever? let's see what he had to say for himself today. >> hi.
expect a romney upset, or in the case of dick morris, a romney landslide? and no one was adamantly as wrong as dick morris. >> one idiot who writes for "newsweek" magazine actually said there was a possible obama landslide coming. my goodness. well, on friday i looked at the real poll numbers by an organization that i can't name, but i trust it. we're going to win the senate. i think that the media is perpetrating this gigantic fraud, which is to say that romney is foot in the...
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and 46% for obama. 4% lead for romney. to hear the democrats talk obama's going to carry the early voting 65 to 35 if romney's lucky, so that was something that was another thing that gave me a very happy outlook for today since that is clearly a bipartisan poll. >> thank you very much, haley barbour, always good to talk to you, especially on election day and good luck to your side as well. >> thanks, andrea. >> what is it like for the candidates on election day. behind the curtain with a veteran campaign strategist bob shrum. >> the pollsle in ohio are closing at 7:30 eastern. as we've said that time we may be able to call a race. a big indicator of which way the night is going. more ahead on "andrea mitchell reports" live from democracy plaza on msnbc. lays ] humans -- even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why, at liberty mutual insurance, auto policies come with new car replacement and accident forgiveness if you qualify. see what else comes standard at li
and 46% for obama. 4% lead for romney. to hear the democrats talk obama's going to carry the early voting 65 to 35 if romney's lucky, so that was something that was another thing that gave me a very happy outlook for today since that is clearly a bipartisan poll. >> thank you very much, haley barbour, always good to talk to you, especially on election day and good luck to your side as well. >> thanks, andrea. >> what is it like for the candidates on election day. behind the...
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. >> the president was committed -- elected on the basis that he was not romney and romney was a poopy head. >> they're going to defend a bunch of millionaires? >> i was long last week as was virtually every major republican analyst. >> bounce with me. come on, bounce with me a little bit. come on. ♪ >>> bounce with me, indeed. it's the first week after the election, and the big story was supposed to be the looming fiscal cliff. but there's nothing like a high profile sex scandal to distract washington. with headlines dominated today by the abrupt resignation of cia director david petraeus over an extramarital affair. some lawmakers are now calling for an inquiry. we're now learning that high-level officials at the fbi and the justice department were notified in late summer that fbi agents had uncovered the affair that led to petraeus' downfall. it all started in early june when a florida woman named jill kelley pictures here with her husband, petraeus, and his wife, alerted agents to e-mails she described as e-mails. they told kelley, a petraeus family friend, to stop socializing wi
. >> the president was committed -- elected on the basis that he was not romney and romney was a poopy head. >> they're going to defend a bunch of millionaires? >> i was long last week as was virtually every major republican analyst. >> bounce with me. come on, bounce with me a little bit. come on. ♪ >>> bounce with me, indeed. it's the first week after the election, and the big story was supposed to be the looming fiscal cliff. but there's nothing like a high...
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romney's pailout bonanza that mitt romney and his wife made at least $15 million on the very auto industry rescue program that he condemned. and a group of labor unions, the uaw, sciu and good government groups brought an action this past week asking the federal government and ethics office to look into romney's disclosures. i think americans have a full right to know the conflict of interests mitt romney and his wife had, as well as the $4 million that mitt romney's wall street donors, paul singer, made from the auto industry rescue. >> i mean, a funny conflict of interest insofar as she's opposing it and profiting it off in. >> maybe that's a -- >> mitt romney will say it's in a blind trust. that blind trust, i never fail to point out which is run by his family attorney which does not meet the threshold for actual blind trusts where they're stipulated by law. bob herbert. >> we found out that the congressional research service, a highly respected operation has drawn a report that it did that shows that there was no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth. why did they withd
romney's pailout bonanza that mitt romney and his wife made at least $15 million on the very auto industry rescue program that he condemned. and a group of labor unions, the uaw, sciu and good government groups brought an action this past week asking the federal government and ethics office to look into romney's disclosures. i think americans have a full right to know the conflict of interests mitt romney and his wife had, as well as the $4 million that mitt romney's wall street donors, paul...
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the campaign spend a lot of time defining romney before romney was able to define obama. he was criticized for taking a week off in july. and for bungling that foreign trip to england, israel and poland. he announced paul ryan as his running mate but that didn't produce the bump he needed. as the focus of the race turned to medicare and the ryan budget. the republican convention was disrupted by weather and a guy talking to an empty chair. and then mid september, the leaked video of mitt romney's 47% remark surfaced. the first presidential debate, romney bested obama in front of 66 million people and began to benefit from mement tum. and then hurricane sandy hit. on tuesday romney will try to unseat an incumbent president, he's trying to knock a party out of power after just one term. while the president is targeting each part of his coalition with a handful of small arguments, romney is counting on winning the large one. >> he made a lot of promises, but those promises he couldn't keep. and the difference between us, he made promises he couldn't keep, i'm making promises
the campaign spend a lot of time defining romney before romney was able to define obama. he was criticized for taking a week off in july. and for bungling that foreign trip to england, israel and poland. he announced paul ryan as his running mate but that didn't produce the bump he needed. as the focus of the race turned to medicare and the ryan budget. the republican convention was disrupted by weather and a guy talking to an empty chair. and then mid september, the leaked video of mitt...
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here comes mitt romney, who they thought they were done with at least for the time being. it's completely off message of everything that the rest of the party is trying to say right now. jindal is trying to say. he's going to tell us not once but twice or even more times, this is not the message i'm trying to get across here. >> it's interesting. there are a lot of new messages. we discussed this from the gop from immigration to taxes. i want it to play what the governor of virginia just said on the gop being flexible on something they seemed to be inflexible on prior to the election. let's play it. actually, i have the words here. i apologize. the people have spoken. i think we're going to have flexible now. laexs do have consequences. the president campaigned on tax hikes on the wealthy as a piece of overall taxes. it's something that absolutely has to be discussed. david, those are the words i read from the governor of virginia, bob mcdonald. what do you make? >> elected officials really wake up when they see some of their peers losing in an election. there but for the
here comes mitt romney, who they thought they were done with at least for the time being. it's completely off message of everything that the rest of the party is trying to say right now. jindal is trying to say. he's going to tell us not once but twice or even more times, this is not the message i'm trying to get across here. >> it's interesting. there are a lot of new messages. we discussed this from the gop from immigration to taxes. i want it to play what the governor of virginia just...
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. >> mitt romney made some mistakes. i think mitt romney's comments is a symptom. i think the disease is the fact the far right of the party controls the primary process. >> senator lindsey graham said sunday he plans to revisit comprehensive immigration reform that was shelved two years ago. >> it's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. just don't reload the gun. so i intend not to reload this gun when it comes to hispanic. i intend to tear this wall down and pass an immigration reform bill that's an american solution to an american problem but we have nobody to blame but ourselves when it comes to losing hispanics. >> republican pollster tells "the new york times" it is obvious until republicans do do better among nonwhite voters they will cease to become a viable national party. we're going to have to address the fact younger people tend to be less conservative on a number of hot button social issues. a former bush adviser put it more bluntly. we have become what the left was in the '70s. former bush, if another republican man says anything about rape other t
. >> mitt romney made some mistakes. i think mitt romney's comments is a symptom. i think the disease is the fact the far right of the party controls the primary process. >> senator lindsey graham said sunday he plans to revisit comprehensive immigration reform that was shelved two years ago. >> it's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. just don't reload the gun. so i intend not to reload this gun when it comes to hispanic. i intend to tear this wall down and pass an...
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nine for mitt romney. new hampshire is one of a handful of critical swing states where the polls showed the president with a consistent but razor thin lead among likely voters. >> looking ahead to tonight polls begin closing at 6:00 eastern in kentucky and indiana and we'll begin to see important results roll in after 7:00 when polls close in another half dozen states including the b battleground of virginia with 13 electoral votes up for grabs. it's a state president obama turned blue back in 2008 by a seven-point margin. >> the latest poll shows a statistical dead heat and the next batch of closings after 7:00, of course, happens at 7:30. among them two more key states of perhaps the most important ohio as well as north carolina. as we've heard a lot of times by now, no republican has ever won the white house without taking the buckeye state. >> so with us on set we have the moderator of "meet the press" david gregory, chief washington correspondent of cnbc and political writer for the "new york times",
nine for mitt romney. new hampshire is one of a handful of critical swing states where the polls showed the president with a consistent but razor thin lead among likely voters. >> looking ahead to tonight polls begin closing at 6:00 eastern in kentucky and indiana and we'll begin to see important results roll in after 7:00 when polls close in another half dozen states including the b battleground of virginia with 13 electoral votes up for grabs. it's a state president obama turned blue...
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and i think mitt romney actually overperformed for the republicans. if you look at all the polling data, all the social stuff that jim ji was talking about, most of the voting public finds that stuff odious. the views on imgraths, the views on women's issues, a whole host of social issues. secondly there, is no message on the economy. they have nothing other than johnny one note on cutting taxes. we've talked about taxes are at 15% of gdp right now. it ain't an economic policy. it isn't intellectually bold. isn't intellectually defensible and that's the problem for the republicans. yes, i agree we want to have a healthy two-party system but it's not going to happen until the republicans do some soul searching. >> julian, jimmy, thank you so much. do stay with us. more to come. it ain't an economic policy. much. >>> we're back with more on the resignation of general david petraeus as head of the cia citing an extramarital affair. michael hastings has written about general petraeus in "rolling stone" and in his book "the operators." i joins us from chic
and i think mitt romney actually overperformed for the republicans. if you look at all the polling data, all the social stuff that jim ji was talking about, most of the voting public finds that stuff odious. the views on imgraths, the views on women's issues, a whole host of social issues. secondly there, is no message on the economy. they have nothing other than johnny one note on cutting taxes. we've talked about taxes are at 15% of gdp right now. it ain't an economic policy. it isn't...
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it was who was pro-obama and who was pro-romney. romney got less votes than mccain got. most people said in respect of the negative ads, i like the vision of president obama. that's why he won eight of nine swing states. it's why the middle went for him. the idea of money influence, yeah, it's important, but at the end of the day, we have one vote. that one vote was loud for the president. >> here is my question to you. this is something i think about a lot. let's imagine mitt romney and barack obama both run and they each run, they have $10 million. just $10 million. are they running the same race, each of them, $10 million versus $10 million as they each run with $100 billion or $1 billion. as the money goes up, are we finding the same e quill librium or is there something that is changing the dynamics of the politics as we climb up. >> as you have more money, you are allowed to be more dynamic on the issues. at one point, it's about wall street, this and that. then it became about women's issues, immigration reform, infrastructure with fema and let's be blunt, at the
it was who was pro-obama and who was pro-romney. romney got less votes than mccain got. most people said in respect of the negative ads, i like the vision of president obama. that's why he won eight of nine swing states. it's why the middle went for him. the idea of money influence, yeah, it's important, but at the end of the day, we have one vote. that one vote was loud for the president. >> here is my question to you. this is something i think about a lot. let's imagine mitt romney and...
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mitt romney back out there yesterday. mitt romney didn't even mention the president's name yesterday. i think perhaps he learned from his mistakes, if you believe they were mistakes after the attack in benghazi. >> yeah, i think, you know, clearly the campaign felt that it jumped in far too quickly in benghazi. and that was a move that they regretted. he was out yesterday in florida campaigning. there were attacks against barack obama's leadership style. and there were some references to fema and exactly the role of the federal government in emergencies. but i just think this quantifies -- i think it changes the race in the sense that it changes the tone of the last few days. and i do think that the president has managed whether it's just us inside the beltway that like the symbolism of barack obama and chris christie and chris christie's endorsement. actually the takeaway for people around the country who are all watching this closely. when i've spoken to people in texas, i've spoken to people in california, they're all
mitt romney back out there yesterday. mitt romney didn't even mention the president's name yesterday. i think perhaps he learned from his mistakes, if you believe they were mistakes after the attack in benghazi. >> yeah, i think, you know, clearly the campaign felt that it jumped in far too quickly in benghazi. and that was a move that they regretted. he was out yesterday in florida campaigning. there were attacks against barack obama's leadership style. and there were some references to...
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had which was reaching a fever pitch, that romney's got the momentum, romney can win, romney's pulling ahead, it all dissipated overnight. >> speaking of joe frazier, it was like frazier/ali. he won the first fight, and he lost the second and the third. i mean, in fact, in the third debate, mitt romney looked nervous, looked a little flush, and looked unsure of himself. >> and here's what else happened. in 2004, john kerry won the first debate, no question. >> no doubt. >> what also happened, bin laden came out with that tape. it reminded voters that no matter how well the framework had been constructed, george bush was responsible for iraq and therefore every problem america had, there were real problems. there were real threats. >> why do you think barack obama killed him? he didn't want a last-minute tape helping another republican. it's a joke, people! it's a joke! >> okay. >> it's a joke! >> the hurricane reminded people that president obama was not responsible for every problem. >> steve did make a point that there is a lot of separation and fatigue with the president, a lot of a
had which was reaching a fever pitch, that romney's got the momentum, romney can win, romney's pulling ahead, it all dissipated overnight. >> speaking of joe frazier, it was like frazier/ali. he won the first fight, and he lost the second and the third. i mean, in fact, in the third debate, mitt romney looked nervous, looked a little flush, and looked unsure of himself. >> and here's what else happened. in 2004, john kerry won the first debate, no question. >> no doubt....
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so will mitt romney. but the lack of leaders and ideas and mechanics of how to win elections, it's going to be ugly. and people like chris christie are going to have to deflect some of the incoming, but they're also going to have to step forward and say what kind of party are we going to be? how are we going to compete in states like -- forget losing the battleground counties for a minute in the battleground states. what about california? if part of you can't get 45% of the vote, much above 40% of the vote in california is not a party about the future. >> and blaming chris christie is exactly maybe what's wrong with the party. you tell me. he should step above it. but can he? >> i think there are a lot of republicans that need to fight back. and you look at this party, jon meacham, this party has lost 5 out of the last 6 elections when it comes to the popular vote. and they had a great victory two years ago, but the same thing happened in 1994. look historically, jon. 1992, bill clinton, a new democrat wi
so will mitt romney. but the lack of leaders and ideas and mechanics of how to win elections, it's going to be ugly. and people like chris christie are going to have to deflect some of the incoming, but they're also going to have to step forward and say what kind of party are we going to be? how are we going to compete in states like -- forget losing the battleground counties for a minute in the battleground states. what about california? if part of you can't get 45% of the vote, much above 40%...
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bush not out campaigning for mitt romney. but rather speaking at an investment conference in the cayman islands. organizers declined comment. tickets, $4,000 apiece. >> oh, my goodness. >> sir richard branson said to be there as well. >> there you go. "the charleston daily mail." west virginia still feeling impacts of sandy in the form of snow. in some counties, 80% of residents have no power. and in places three feet of snow cover the ground. this must be just unbelievable. forest crews and fema have been working around the clock with chain saws to carve up fallen trees but more are falling under wet, heavy snow. >> "the washington post," the ipad mini goes on sale. apple expects to sell 1 million this weekend. put that in perspective, apple sold 5 million units of the iphone 5 in september. almost two inches smaller than the full-size version, but 330 bucks more expensive than competitors' model. >> 200 in the first day just to halperin. >> halperin. he hoards apple products. he's a hoarder. >> you never know. >> mika, we s
bush not out campaigning for mitt romney. but rather speaking at an investment conference in the cayman islands. organizers declined comment. tickets, $4,000 apiece. >> oh, my goodness. >> sir richard branson said to be there as well. >> there you go. "the charleston daily mail." west virginia still feeling impacts of sandy in the form of snow. in some counties, 80% of residents have no power. and in places three feet of snow cover the ground. this must be just...
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to romney's credit, romney, i know, wanted massive immigration reform before he started running for president. they couldn't reach an agreement. so he then had to go into this primary process where he had to keep moving to the right on immigration and we see the results. >> and he ran away from it. four years ago -- four years ago i read a book right after the president got elected. i talked about tone. i said we need to be conservative. we need to be conservative on spending money, balancing the budget, fighting wars. we've got to show restraint. but i said we've also got to show restraint in our rhetoric. and it drove so many people crazy. they couldn't do it. so you're right. you want the reagan model. you want to be conservative ideologically, but want to be moderate temperamentally. there's also something important as well, and i can't bring it up enough. david frum calls it the conservative entertainment complex. there were so many times where we were in danger as a party, the primary process, i said it time and again, that it was killing our brand. one week you would have herman cain a
to romney's credit, romney, i know, wanted massive immigration reform before he started running for president. they couldn't reach an agreement. so he then had to go into this primary process where he had to keep moving to the right on immigration and we see the results. >> and he ran away from it. four years ago -- four years ago i read a book right after the president got elected. i talked about tone. i said we need to be conservative. we need to be conservative on spending money,...
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, romney, romney. and then late the next night, i started looking at the tallies, state by state by state by state by state. and looking, as john cornyn said, and it was a great observation by senator cornyn, we didn't just lose in one wing. every wing of the republican party -- >> every region of the republican party. >> -- was battered. in every region it was battered. listen, bob dole wasn't the greatest candidate in 1996. and john mccain wasn't the greatest candidate in 2008. republicans still figured out how to win some senate seats that year. this year the republican brand was ravaged. and they paid for it whether they were moderates like tommy thompson, whether they were tea partiers, like the two whose names i never have to mention again, whether it was self-funding candidates like linda mcmahon, they all got slaughtered. >> big goose egg. >> their record in the dozen or so competitive senate races was as bad as mitt romney's was in the nine battleground states. i mean, they won about one or tw
, romney, romney. and then late the next night, i started looking at the tallies, state by state by state by state by state. and looking, as john cornyn said, and it was a great observation by senator cornyn, we didn't just lose in one wing. every wing of the republican party -- >> every region of the republican party. >> -- was battered. in every region it was battered. listen, bob dole wasn't the greatest candidate in 1996. and john mccain wasn't the greatest candidate in 2008....
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. >> pretend president romney, ladies and gentlemen! >>> all right, we're not going to pretend about this. what have we learned today? peter, what have you learned? >> jewish jocks, 250 pages, it's not a pamphlet anymore. read all of it. brian, what have you learned? >> about to go to war with "the new york times." most read story, the most brutal restaurant review i've ever, ever read. >> and one of the funniest. >> eviscerated. >> i've learned so much trivia, i can't wait to get back to the office and share it with my colleagues. >>> i learned "people" magazine sexiest man alive, huge oversight here. what about willie and joe and not barnicle? >> i admit it. i learned
. >> pretend president romney, ladies and gentlemen! >>> all right, we're not going to pretend about this. what have we learned today? peter, what have you learned? >> jewish jocks, 250 pages, it's not a pamphlet anymore. read all of it. brian, what have you learned? >> about to go to war with "the new york times." most read story, the most brutal restaurant review i've ever, ever read. >> and one of the funniest. >> eviscerated. >> i've...
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but the romney campaign never got to that. the other issue that ax thought really could have worked for romney is bipartisanship, to talk about how, as a republican governor and democratic state, he made it work. the romney campaign got to that late, probably too late. >> first debate. >> yeah, and mike, you also asked him what the biggest gift to the campaign was. was it the tape? was it the 47% tape? >> there was that, and he said they also made a terrible mistake at the end with that jeep commercial that we saw here on "morning joe" that had two automobile ceos coming out and calling romney who was supposed to be the business guy, the michigan native, calling him a liar basically. >> mike allen. >> that's not good. >> with a look at the "politico playbook." mike, thanks so much. >> at his age. >> for 102, he's good-looking. >> i tell you what. >> if i'm looking that good five or six years from now when i'm 102, i'll be happy. >> you know what it is? it's all that gingham pinafore. what is that? i don't know that what was. i
but the romney campaign never got to that. the other issue that ax thought really could have worked for romney is bipartisanship, to talk about how, as a republican governor and democratic state, he made it work. the romney campaign got to that late, probably too late. >> first debate. >> yeah, and mike, you also asked him what the biggest gift to the campaign was. was it the tape? was it the 47% tape? >> there was that, and he said they also made a terrible mistake at the end...
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and i will say in mitt romney's case -- >> yeah. >> -- mitt romney had 100 different sister soulja moments over the past three years he could have taken. when glen beck came out several years ago and called the president of the united states a racist who hated all white people, that would have been a great time -- and igsd said an the show -- to show he was distancing himself from the hate or extremism. >> or when he called that woman a slut. it would have cost mitt romney nothing to say something more forceful to rush at that moment and yet he refused to do that. it would have helped them. very weak. very weak. >> they make a couple of really big mistakes. one was that they thought the anti-obama hatred would drive enough people to the polls. there just weren't enough -- there wasn't enough hatred out there to turn out enough people, number one. number two, they thought the economy would trump everything else. and in the end, the economy was picking up just enough to push the president over 50 points and weaken that argument. and republicans will not have that argument in 2016. last mista
and i will say in mitt romney's case -- >> yeah. >> -- mitt romney had 100 different sister soulja moments over the past three years he could have taken. when glen beck came out several years ago and called the president of the united states a racist who hated all white people, that would have been a great time -- and igsd said an the show -- to show he was distancing himself from the hate or extremism. >> or when he called that woman a slut. it would have cost mitt romney...
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president obama turns mitt romney's 47% problem into a 51% re-election but can the president turn a public mandate into a political one? we will ask new york magazine's jonathan chait next on "now." ♪ these are... [ male announcer ] marie callender's puts everything you've grown to love about sunday dinner into each of her pot pies. tender white meat chicken and vegetables in a crust made from scratch. marie callender's. it's time to savor. i'd like to thank eating right, whole grain, multigrain cheerios! mom, are those my jeans? [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multigrain cheerios anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yeah. one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. approved! [ phillips' lady ] live the regular life. phillips'. >>> does barack obama now have a mandate? >> i don't think so because they also re-elected the house republicans. whether people intended or not, we've got divided government. >> you don't
president obama turns mitt romney's 47% problem into a 51% re-election but can the president turn a public mandate into a political one? we will ask new york magazine's jonathan chait next on "now." ♪ these are... [ male announcer ] marie callender's puts everything you've grown to love about sunday dinner into each of her pot pies. tender white meat chicken and vegetables in a crust made from scratch. marie callender's. it's time to savor. i'd like to thank eating right, whole...
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and of course, romney did worse with asian-americans than he did with latinos. and the reason was pretty simple. the obama message was after they get done deporting them, they're coming for you. so he literally did -- nobody's picked this up yet, but we used to carry the asian-american vote. we've managed in 12 years to totally throw it away. it's almost inconceivable we would do as badly as we did with latinos. the obama campaign began advertising on univision, i think in early may. and i said one-third of the republican effort should have been in the latino community. if you have a zone that's going to make or break you, you better figure out how to carry it or it'll break you. that was a significant part of where we are. and the republicans are going to have to come to grips with immigration. and how do you deal in a humane way with grandmothers? i deliberately use that imagery because it personifies -- you can't say to somebody i really would like to get your vote over jobs, by the way, we're kicking your grandmother out. it doesn't work. >> a bit of a mixed
and of course, romney did worse with asian-americans than he did with latinos. and the reason was pretty simple. the obama message was after they get done deporting them, they're coming for you. so he literally did -- nobody's picked this up yet, but we used to carry the asian-american vote. we've managed in 12 years to totally throw it away. it's almost inconceivable we would do as badly as we did with latinos. the obama campaign began advertising on univision, i think in early may. and i said...